Volume 6 , Issue 19

Oakie's Trip Through the Countryside...

Besides new horse colts and fillys, the 90-something temperatures have stirred the ripening of the red winter wheat that is canvassing the rural countryside with it's luscious carpet of green, waving wheat that sure smells sweet ... right behind the rain. As we journeyed out West and South of Woods County near Alva the other day, we stopped at this railroad crossing and caught this two-engine, Burlington Northern & Santa Fe freight train southern-bound, heading towards Avard, Oklahoma.

After it had passed, we headed west again towards a Prairie Skyscraper, Noel Coop Elevator. For those of you who haven't been to Noel for awhile, about a mile of so west of Alva, by the Ridgeview Veterinary, turn south off of highway 64 and follow a curving south, west road for a few miles. You will see on the horizon line a lone grain elevator (Kansas folks might call them "Prairie Skyscrapers"). You will pass over one set of railroad crossing and before you get to the second railroad crossing, you will turn south again -- pass by a farm house (where my folks used to buy their REAL cream, eggs and milk from the Gatz family).

You can also catch some scenes of the buffalo grass, sage brush, cottonwood, chinaberry trees out at Fairvalley, Oklahoma. Things have sure greened up fast around here with all the rain we received the last few weeks. Some say over 6-inches of rain in the last few weeks. The winter wheat is heading out and some say that harvest is probably a month away... or so.

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